February 2016 Newsletter |

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is bedridden in hospital with a broken leg. Accustomed to an active life, his situation has left him bored and bad tempered. Familiar with his belief that he can judge an individual’s character from studying the person’s face, Marta Hallard, an actor friend, provides him with pictures of historical figures and asks him to analyse them. Grant is taken with a painting of Richard III determining from his appearance that he is a kind and gentle man, not the murderer that history reports.

With the help of Hallard and other friends, Grant sets out to solve the crimes that Richard is accused of, including the murder of the Princes in the Tower of London.

Written in 1951, this novel is considered one of the best mystery novels of the 20th century.

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Upcoming Reads

March 2016

During March we’ll be discussing two books, the non-fiction History of Beauty which examines how the idea of beauty developed and has evolved in Western culture. Our second book is Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland, a novel about the beauty in life and the power of art set in World War II France.